Celebrate Quotes - Page 9

• I have a son who's been raised Jewish because his mom is Jewish. I have a whole different set of holidays to celebrate. Everybody is thrown together with their family in such an intense way, opening all of that stuff again. You're cooped up with everybody and forced to exist with them, and you're forced to try to relate to them in this way that's more open. I guess that just doesn't work for a lot of people.

  Paul Giamatti

  Mom, Holiday, Son

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• Any man's greatness is a tribute to the nobility of all mankind, so when we celebrate the genius of [Leo] Tolstoy, we say, "Look! One of our boys made it! Look what we're capable of!"

  Mel Brooks

  Boys, Greatness, Men

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• When are you people going to learn? It's not about who's right or wrong. No denomination's nailed it yet, because they're all too self-righteous to realize that it doesn't matter what you have faith in, just that you have faith. Your hearts are in the right place, but your brains need to wake up. I have issues with anyone who treats faith as a burden instead of a blessing. You people don't celebrate your faith; you mourn it.

  Kevin Smith

  Heart, Blessing, Self

  "Fictional character: Serendipity". "Dogma", www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• I'm celebrating my love for you with a pint of beer and a new tattoo

  Billy Bragg

  Tattoo, Beer, My Love For You

  Song: Greetings to the New Brunette

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• I couldn't believe it. That was the first time I had ever seen somebody celebrate for a whole 40-second clock. That was ridiculous.

  Charles Woodson

  Funny, Believe, Nfl

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• Understanding what and why did not work may be more instructive than celebrating our successes.

  Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

  Science, Understanding, May

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• Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, but it profoundly matters that the international community takes action to conserve it.

  Cary Fowler

  Diversity, Community, Littles

  "Of Pandas and Peas: Saving the Diversity Within Species" by Cary Fowler, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2010.

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• I want to celebrate these elms which have been spared by the plague, these survivors of a once flourishing tribe commemorated by all the Elm Streets in America. But to celebrate them is to be silent about the people who sit and sleep underneath them, the homeless poor who are hauled away by the city like trash, except it has no place to dump them. To speak of one thing is to suppress another.

  Lisel Mueller

  Sleep, Cities, America

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• Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close and nurturing, not distant and authoritarian. Fatherhood as more than bread winning. Fatherhood as new-and-improved masculinity. Fathers unafraid of feelings. Fathers without sexism. Fatherhood as fifty-fifty parenthood, undistorted by arbitrary gender divisions or stifling social roles.

  David Blankenhorn

  Father, Winning, Ideas

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• We're Americans. We celebrate success. We just don't want the game to be rigged.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Games, Want, Rigged

  "Warren Delivers Honesty at the DNC" by David Dayen, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Compliant children are very easily led when they are young, because they thrive on approval and pleasing adults. They are just aseasily led in their teen years, because they still seek the same two things: approval and the pleasing their peers. Strong-willed children are never easily led by anybody--not by you, but also not by their peers. So celebrate your child's strength of will throughout the early years...and know that the independent thinking you are fostering will serve him well in the critical years to come.

  Barbara Coloroso

  Strong, Children, Independent

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• Tokyo is like the New York of Asia. Although the people there are all basically from Japan, they celebrate what they like about various cultures.

  Pharrell Williams

  New York, Japan, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Both sex and death are eternal themes. You could make thousands of movies on this theme, and whether you have a human being who is painting, singing, making a film, writing, these are the themes that you will come back to and return to. If you don't have any of these artistic expressions, sex is one of the only gifts that nature gave you for free, so it is very important to celebrate it. And then, with death, we are condemned to that. This is absolutely present in our lives.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Sex, Writing, Expression

  "Pedro Almodóvar Talks I’M SO EXCITED, the Role of Sex and Death in His Work, Making the “Gayest Film” He’s Done in 20 Years, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 24, 2013.

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• Kim Newman's Anno Dracula is back in print, and we must celebrate. It was the first mash-up of literature, history and vampires, and now, in a world in which vampires are everywhere, it's still the best, and its bite is just as sharp. Compulsory reading, commentary, and mindgame: glorious.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reading, Literature History, Mash Up

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• Everyone is different: different shapes, sizes, colors, beliefs, personalities, and you have to celebrate those differences.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Color, Differences, Personality

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• Celebrate small victories often. Mourn failures quickly. Do what's necessary without fanfare.

  Chris Brogan

  Victory, Small Victories, Mourn

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• I wanted to breathe new life into the timeless trend of past, present and future. These unique designs celebrate the bride and groom's passage through their new life together.

  Vera Wang

  Unique, Past, Design

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• And it is the great noon when man stands at the midpoint of his course between beast and superman and celebrates his way to the evening as his highest hope: for it is the way to a new morning.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Morning, Men, Noon

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• The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Writing, Shining, Pleasure

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• Iran is celebrating the nuclear deal. The Iranians are going crazy. They're drinking non-alcoholic champagne and thinking about dancing. That's how excited they are.

  Conan O'Brien

  Crazy, Drinking, Thinking

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• Former President Bush, to celebrate his 80th birthday, jumped out of an airplane. And if you've seen the polls, you know he's not the only Bush in freefall.

  David Letterman

  Airplane, President, Polls

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• What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator.

  Henry David Thoreau

  God, Integrity, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.276, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Wallace Stevens: the Platonist celebrates endless change, but with regret.

  Mason Cooley

  Change, Regret, Endless

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• I don't drink anymore for Cinco de Mayo. I celebrate with Mexican food, or as it's known in Mexico: 'food.'

  Craig Ferguson

  Mexican, Mexico, Drink

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• Let no one pay me honor with tears, nor celebrate my funeral rites with weeping.

  Quintus Ennius

  Funeral, Honor, Tears

  As quoted in "Tusculanae Disputationes" by Cicero, Book I, chapter XV, section 34,

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